Description
*This is a Vinyl LP*
Release Date: 2022
Label: Korova
Track List
Side A
- The Cutter
- Back Of Love
- My White Devil
- Clay
- Porcupine
Side B
- Heads Will Roll
- Ripeness
- Higher Hell
- Gods Will Be Gods
- In Bluer Skies
Notes
Porcupine is Echo & The Bunnymen’s most profound and personal album from their early period. Weathering band turmoil, rejections from their record company and spans of songwriting drought, the group emerged with a passionate and compelling set of songs described by vocalist Ian McCulloch as “coming to terms with the opposites in me.” Following their fourth Peel session in early 1982, the band chose Ian Broudie, leader of The Lightning Seeds and co-producer of Echo’s 1980 album Crocodiles, to produce Porcupine. While the album includes both “The Back of Love” and “The Cutter” (two of their most upbeat and successful singles), most of the material was fairly introverted and autobiographical.
Bass – Les Pattinson
Design – Martyn Atkins
Drums – Pete De Freitas
Guitar, Vocals – Ian McCulloch
Lead Guitar – Will Sergeant
Producer – Ian Broudie
Strings – Shankar
Written-By – McCulloch, Pattinson, De Freitas, Sergeant
Originally released Feburary 1983
